The Battle of Arbalo 11 BC - Roman Conquest of Germania

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Caesar as having some trouble with Germans crossing the Rhine - so - he bridged the Rhine - went about causing trouble for the Germans - then went back across his bridge - and destroyed it so the Germans couldn't use it. The message - "I can build one of those any time I want." .

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@@TEverettReynolds Except the Legionaries did that themselves.

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Many forget that Teutoburg came AFTER a initial conquest by one of the best roman general of all times, Drusus, father of Germanicus.

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Did he name his son after Germania or was it the other way around?

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@@rustydragonling his son gained that name later in life

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@@rustydragonling he earned that name fighting the Germanic tribes

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@@ecurewitz Arminius also earned his name fighting the Romans or because he was Roman. Armani / Armagne / Arman is an endonym for the Romance speaking ethnic groups at the Balkans. Like his uncle Arminius, Italicus means the Italian.

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[@Moon-li9ki]

first time I'm hearing about Drusus, definitely underrated. I wonder if Germania would have been fully annexed into the empire if he lived for another 20 years.

[@walter1946]

Drusus was the brother of the later Emperor Tiberius and the father of both Germanicus (Germanicus got his famous agnomen from his father, not his own accomplishments) and the emperor Claudius. He was a huge figure in his day though his passing did little to effect Rome's presence in Germania. Rome would continue to exert dominance and influence into Germania until it's decline, the fact that it never became a formally annexed province had little to do with military ability.

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That depends if he would have stayed in Germania for much longer which is doubtfull since he would have been Augustus successor instead of Tiberius. And Tiberius and Germanicus both couldnt subdue the Germanic tribes after Teuteborg ... but once Drusus became emperor, maybe he would have launched another campgain, thats possible at least

[@ericconnor8251]

@@walter1946 Germania Magna was only occupied for a couple decades as the video explains, but the Romans occupied the western side of the Rhine River for centuries and they did have formally established provinces there: Germania Superior and Germania Inferior. Modern cities like Cologne, Mainz, Trier, and Xanten were all founded as Roman cities, as was Augsburg in Bavaria, founded as Augusta Vindelicorum in 15 BC around the time Drusus was first active in northern Germany.

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It’s a shame Drusus died so young, and sadly they got Tiberius instead

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Drusus was not just a general but also and important character in the story of the first emperors of Rome as well, he married Antonia Minor (Mark Antony's daughter) One of his sons bore the nickname Germanicus for his father's accomplishments and his other son Claudius who conquered much of Britain, had a son called Britanicus (for his father's accomplishment too).

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I always wonder, the later roman's inability to tame Germania - was it a testament to how good the first tyrant Caesar was as an enslaver or is it a statement to how unconquerable the frozen north is

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Neither. The Romans didn’t see much economic value in Germany as far as the Elbe River, and were content with holding the Rhine River instead for centuries, establishing provinces in both the Rhineland and Bavaria further south where they founded what is now the city of Augsburg (and other cities further north like Mainz, Trier, and Cologne). They clearly viewed the British Isles as more financially appealing (especially for tin and iron mining) since they conquered most of Great Britain. They built the Limes Germanicus series of forts from the Rhine to the Danube Rivers but in Britannia they built Hadrian’s Wall in what would become northern England and the Antonine Wall in what would become the Scottish Lowlands.

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[@shadhinov]

But there would still always be someone hoping to find glory and get an imperator claim through conquest. Antony and krassus for example lost their legacies roaming into the desert for this glory. Even if its some young general looking to seek this glory, why didn't they conquer Germania. The only thing I can think of is that the land of Germania is untamable. Frozen wastelands causing massive attrition. Kinds like what Russia did to the Reich and napoleon

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​@@ericconnor8251 i mean Gallia and Britannia is also said to not be that profitable, yet Romans hold it for centuries. It's a testament that Germania inflicts higher costs to Romans compared to those regions.

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